AN: oh my gosh guys, sorry for the long wait! It's been pretty hectic this last while for both of us and we had writer's block... again...

Chapter 5

After a little while of walking Miss Martian suddenly stopped.

'Uhh Miss Martian are you okay?' Superboy asked but she just stood frozen in midair. Robin waved a hand in front of her face, 'hellooooo.'

'I don't get it.' Artemis said, 'Suddenly she jus...' she stopped talking as Miss Martian's thoughts flooded hers, and the rest of the team's too.

She had made contact with Martian Manhunter. His thoughts were weak, no words formed, only feelings of exhaustion and pain, a lot of pain. Everyone cringed as the pain flooded their thoughts and Miss Martian quickly severed the connection to her uncle.

'What was that?' Leo asked warily

'My uncle he- he's in pain.' Miss M answered, sounding pained herself.

'Yeah we kinda got that.' Artemis said

'Miss M, do you know what was going on?' Robin asked

Miss Martian shook her head, 'Only that he's surrounded by fire. His thoughts are too jumbled for me to make out exactly what is going on.'

'Well, could you try contacting someone else? Try Batman.' Robin said

Miss M nodded and then closed her eyes in concentration.

After about a minute or so she opened them again, 'He's not letting me in.' She told Robin.

'Of course not, can you try to get him to hear me?' Robin asked

'I'll try.' She said, 'When I tell you to, try and reach out to him, imagine that you're trying to grab his hand, I'll help you find him'

Robin nodded and Miss M closed her eyes again.

'Now!'

Robin closed his eyes and tried to do what Miss Martian said. He could feel something that seemed familliar but when he reached out to it he felt as if he hit a wall.

'That's him.' Miss M said, 'Call out to him, maybe he'll hear.'

'Batman! It's Robin! Let me in!' He directed at the wall

Robin watched the brickwall, still strong and unmoving when suddenly words appeared on the wall.

"How did u get your name?" the words read in Romani.

Robin clicked, Batman was trying to see if it was really him.

'It's what my parents called me.' He responded

A few moments later the wall fell away, 'What's going on?' Batman's voice was strained as it filled there heads. It made Robin flinch

'Rescue mission.' Robin said, 'Duh.'

'No. The Injustice League have allingned themselves with a manic calling himself the Shredder, he has an army of ninja and is too dangerous. You need to fall back.'

A general feeling of disagreement suddenly filled the mind link as the rest of the team reacted to that statement.

'Don't worry, Batman, we're ready for old Shred-head and his ninja army, right Leo?' Robin said while sending Leo a look

'Well we're as ready as we can be.' Leo answered

'Dude, we're totally ready for him!' Mikey piped up, 'Ain't that right Raph?'

'The bucket head won't know what hit him.' Raph growled and a general feeling of agreement and pumped-up-ness filled the mind link.

Robin imagined Batman simply raising his eyebrow

'Who was that?' He asked referring to the new voices.

'Some friends who are all too familiar with the Shredder. See, we got this.' Robin smirked.

'Robin you don't understand, even with your new recruits you won't be able to...'

'Batman, right?' Leo suddenly interrupted, 'My brothers and I aren't amatures, we know how Shredder works and we have handled him well enough before. So all due respect, tell us your location, or you and your friends can stay in there as prisoners while we all go home and kick back with a slice of pizza.'

Raph giggled and the Young Justice team were speechless, as was Batman.

'Dude, you know you just spoke to BATMAN like that, right?' Kid Flash said.

'We're on the east wing on the fourth floor.' Batman simply said after his silence

'What's your situation?' Robin asked

Silence

'C'mon, Batman! We can go in blind but it would be nice to know what we're walking into!'

Another few seconds of silence until suddenly images started flooding their minds as Batman showed them what he could see.

Martian Manhunter appeared to be unconscious. He was tied to a pole and there was fire burning around him; as if a bunch of people from the Middle Ages had captured him and decided to burn him at the stake.

Superman also seemed to be unconscious, a chain with a huge piece of Kryptonite hanging around his chest.

Next they saw Aquaman who was passed out in what looked like a waterless fish tank.

'Black Manta said that there are fans built into the tank to only blow in dry air, he also mentioned heat lamps.' Batman informed them before focusing on the next captured hero.

Flash was tied up and sitting in a corner with a dazed look on his face, 'They're keeping him drugged.' Batman said

Next he focused on Green Arrow who was suspended from the ceiling by his arms and who looked like he had been run over by a truck. No comment came from Batman as to why he looked like that.

Next Batman focused on the exits, 'I assume all those doors are guarded by ninja. I believe that the Injustice League are situated there,' a mental image of a mirror above Aquaman's tank formed, 'They're expecting you.'

'Well they're not expecting us.' Donny said

'Don't get over confident.' Batman warned

'What about you, Batman?' Artemis asked, 'What condition are you in.?'

'That's none of your-' Batman's thought cut off as he heard a voice calling out to him

"Oh Batsiiiiieeee!" A shrill, chilling voice called out, "You're awake! Excellent! We weren't done playing when you so rudely fell asleep!"

An image of the Joker, slowly walking forward while swining a crowbar in his one hand and grinning manically as he walked, entered into the team's minds before Batman suddenly cut himself out of the mind link.

Robin silently cursed under his breath

"Let's move." He led the way

Robin led his team into the building. They took out the foot ninjas discreetly and quickly. Robin looked at his computer around his wrist.

'We should be pretty close to them now.' He told the others.

'Now here's a question, do we go in as ninja like as we possibly can? Or do we go in guns blazing?' Artemis asked.

'Uh, Artemis? You're on the sneaky ninja team. We do the guns blazing thing.' Kid Flash said as if talking to a three-year-old

'Kid Flash you aren't even on the infiltration team.' She said matter of factly.

'No, but I could never pass up the opportunity to annoy you.'

'You two sounds like Raph and Mikey.' Donny told them

'So you're telling me that Raph and Mikey are actually in love with each other but just won't admit it?' Robin asked sarcastically

Kid Flash started to laugh until he realised what Robin had said, 'Hey!'

Artemis tried to slap Robin over the head but he was too fast for her and she kept missing

'Okay guys, I think we need to focus now.' Leo said in what Raph liked to call his 'fearless leader' voice

'I agree.' Aqualad said, 'Robin, are you in position?'

'Yeah, Aqualad, we're ready. You can make with the distraction.'

"Yea finally!" Mikey exclaimed as he and Kid Flash high-fived

They all ran out with their battle cries towards very startled foot ninja

"Man I do love giving the bad guys a good ol' knuckle sandwich." Kid Flash zoomed to two more ninjas banging their heads together.

"Would you like a little special sauce with your sandwich?" Mikey threw a ninja into another one that was coming up behind Kid Flash.

"And that my friend..." Kid Flash looked to Mikey

"Is a perfecto sounding sandwich." The turtle finished. They smiled as they knuckle bumped

"You two are weird." Superboy said as he used one foot solider to bash a bunch of his fellow ninjas

"Yea and I thought having one meathead around was enough, now we got two of em together!" Raph cut a rope next to him causing barrels to fall on a group of his opponents

"You guy's are just jealous of our awesomeness." Mikey grinned

Aqualad directed water at a group behind Mikey and Kid Flash

"Perhaps you should concentrate on the current situation and not having me save your sorry asses." He told them

Kid Flash raised an eyebrow.

"You know its not very often I hear you say sorry asses Aqualad. Let me process." Kid Flash held up a finger for a moment, "Nope can't process it."

"It is a rather strange term, I have been learning it from you Kid Flash. It seems to get the team's attention." He hit two ninjas with his water swords and elbowed the one behind him in the face.

"I do love how we can just have a normal conversation while kicking but." Mikey said before delivering a round house kick to the nearest ninja

Suddenly there was only one ninja left. Mikey and Kid Flash glanced at each other and then grinned wickedly at the ninja before they both threw a punch at his face at the same time and knocked him out.

"Well that was easy." Superboy said

"Yeah." Raph said, "A little too easy."

Kid Flash and Mikey groaned

"Gee thanks for jinxing it Raph." Mikey grumbled

"I do not understand." Aqualad said, "What is jinxing?"

"It's when someone says something was too easy and then two seconds later..." Kid Flash trailed off as about a hundred or so ninja suddenly surrounded them, "It gets ten times worse than before."

Kid Flash and Mikey groaned once again louder.

"Okay okay I get it!" Raph said gripping his sai, but what happened next none of them expected.

The foot ninja stood still as metal could be heard meeting the tar floor. Through the grey clouds from the smoke pelletes, out stepped the Shredder.

"I must say I am surprised you are here Raphael and Michaelangelo. Where are your brothers? "

"Shredder." Raph growled

"Indeed Raphael. I see you have made some new friends. But so have I."

With those words they were joined by Lex Luthor in his robotic suit of armour, Zoom and Black Manta."

"We've been expecting you, children." Lex Luthor sneered

"Prepare to die." Black Manta added

"We are so screwed." Kid Flash muttered